| Show i Will Distribute Anti-Smoking Posters Volunteers from the American Cancer Society's Utah Division are distributing white and blue posters designed to Improve health and promote courtesty toward THE UTAH cancer volunteers will distribute placards to be posted in public places as a reminder that Utah law makes it an infraction to smoke in an enclosed public you for not smoking in this public It's a Utah the poster In it quotes from Section of the Utah Code Annotated as is an infraction for any person to smoke or tobacco fn any form in an enclosed public except in extra compartments or coaches specially provided for smoking THE UTAH project is part of a nationwide effort to stress the rights of the light of recent scientific studies which have shown the hazards of cigarette according to Jack B. president of the Utah Division of the American Cancer The studies were summarized in a 1972 Surgeon report which said cigarette smoke breathed by non-smokers can worsen respiratory lead to complications in irritate lungs and overtax the SCIENTISTS testing cigarette smoke have identified several harmful In the case of carbon the Surgeon General's report said the level of this noxious gas in rooms filled with tobacco smoke has been found to equal and at times exceed air pollution standards and can affect human depending on the length of JUSTIN J. outgoing president of the American Cancer wrote in a report to the House of Delegates at the October Annual Meeting in New use of tobacco has been found not only to be hazardous for the but for the non-smoker as More attention is being given to the rights of non-smokers by passing legislation to protect the health and atmospheric environment of the THE POSTER campaign is an attempt to educate to the fact that there is a long-standing law prohibiting smoking in places and to encourage of that A national movement to ban smoking fn public places has picked up steam in recent with Arizona the Legislature passed such a law last UNDER growing pressure from non-smokers' at least a dozen states are considering similar and numerous cities have passed local In a City Ordinance was passed recently which allows law enforcement officers to issue a citation for an infraction in much the same way as a parking ticket is In the Civil Aeronautics Board has made it mandatory for commercial airlines to offer a non-smoking Posters are available upon request at Utah Division East South and at the Provo and Ogden Cancer Society |
